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Bill: Parental Emancipation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Centrist Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 3730
Description[?]:
| A law like this, while it might sound appealing in theory, is not enforceable in reality and leads to severe breaches of basic civil rights. - A test vetting new parents is inherently arbitrary. What constitutes 'acceptable' parenting skills cannot be objectively defined, meaning that such tests may be biased towards certain views on society, politics etc. - Compulsory testing of parents requires massive surveillance of the population, clearly violating personal integrity, and costs resources that could be better spent on actually helping children in need. - The law does not specify what happens to parents that fail the test. Whether you want it or not, procreation is not a privilege but a biological function. The only way the gov't could stop would-be parents is by some sort of forced contraception. Furthermore, what happens to already-pregnant couples if they fail? |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning parental qualifications.
Old value:: The government requires a test for would-be parents, if parents circumvent the test they are allowed to keep the children, but are watched for incompentence.
Current: The government requires a test for would-be parents, if parents circumvent the test they are allowed to keep the children, but are watched for incompentence.
Proposed: The government does not hold qualifications for new parents.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:43:59, September 18, 2014 CET | From | Liberal Republican Party | To | Debating the Parental Emancipation Act |
| Message | I think this is only applied in Adoptions not in biological parents. |
| Date | 03:22:34, September 18, 2014 CET | From | Royal Conservative Party | To | Debating the Parental Emancipation Act |
| Message | No, it's on all parents. The current law is essentially one step away from people needing a license to be legally allowed to reproduce. |
| Date | 06:32:59, September 18, 2014 CET | From | Democratic Centrist Party | To | Debating the Parental Emancipation Act |
| Message | As the RCP rightly points out, the current law does not specify adoptive parents meaning that all would-be parents are affected. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 441 | ||||||||
| no | Total Seats: 59 | ||||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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